On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:54:03PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Jeff Koch wrote: > > Thanks for your help. When we ran ping as nagios it bombed. Permissions on > > ping needed to be set SUID root so that an ICMP socket could be opened. We > > had changed that for security reasons. We'll make nagios sudo root for > > ping. That should solve the problem. > > Changing /bin/ping to not be suid root for security reasons and then changing > Nagios to be suid root to fix a problem this causes seems more than just a > little backwards to me.
I've left Jeff's quote in so you can see, Andreas, that you misread him. He didn't say "SUID root". He said sudo -- he plans to set the nagios Linux user up so it can sudo to run ping as root. Seems sensible to me. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null